We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Unknown
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
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Cornel West
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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Iain Pears
Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice.
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Michael J. Sandel
(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)
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Michael J. Sandel
More Quotes By Sonia Sotomayor
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.
[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.
